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Booking photos of Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman taken on May 30, 2020. In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law degree from New York University — should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator. “You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian Cogan told Colinford Mattis, even as he expressed admiration for what the...

The developer of the ill-fated Ground Zero Mosque won't relent on his goal of planting a flag on the grave of 3,000 Americans. The New York Post reports that Sharif El-Gamal and his banking partners announced Wednesday that he secured "Sharia-compliant financing" to build a luxury condominium tower and an Islamic museum on the same site as the proposed Ground Zero Mosque -- four blocks away from where the Twin Towers once stood. The $174 million dollar project features a three-story Islamic cultural museum at 51 Park Place and 48 high-end residential condos in a 43-story tower at 45 Park...

The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project is officially dead. We won. We the People.Crains New York reports that the unsavory developer behind the Ground Zero Mosque initiative, Sharif El-Gamal, is now making different plans: “Mr. El-Gamal’s Soho Properties has proposed a 667-foot condominium tower at lower Manhattan’s 45 Park Place. The glass skyscraper, which has yet to break ground, will include at least 15 full-floor units of 3,200 to 3,700 square feet, and average prices higher than $3,000 a square foot, according to plans released to Bloomberg by the developer.”If El-Gamal hopes to snag $3,000 a square foot, there is...

Once again Ground Zero mosqueteer does his deadbeat dance. How does this guy continue to get a free pass? He expected infidel taxpayers to foot the bill. Clearly he was counting on that $5.5 million from the taxpayer 911 fund he requested, but didn't get it :) Here is the truth about the Ground Zero grifter, the story that the media never tells you. This lowlife has defaulted on two bank loans, hasn't paid his back taxes, was busted for prostitution. Gamal not only beats people up and threatens Muslims who speak out against the mosque, but he is also...

E-mails and other public records requested by opponents show a Bloomberg administration acting behind the scenes on behalf of the Park51 project — aka the Ground Zero Mosque — and a development board member looking for “political cover” before allowing the project to go forward. Bloomberg administration officials are working “very closely with the organizers of the project. . . to combat public opposition and navigate various governmental hurdles.” One administration official even ghost-wrote a letter for Park51 organizers. The Wall Street Journal reports: In one email from May, Shelly Friedman, the organizers’ lawyer, wrote that Manhattan Community Board 1′s...

"Please read my latest article over at The Thinker. It is a very important argument that must be made. Forward it. Think about it. And join us tomorrow to protest the Ground Zero mosque at 12:45 pm in front of 250 Broadway. Bring signs and flags and love of country, respect for the fallen."

You decide... Should NYC Mosque Get Federal Funds? Yes, it qualifies for grants like any other group Maybe, but clearly the developers are pressing their luck No, this request is an insult to 9/11 victims' families I don't know Other (leave a comment)

The developers behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque have applied for about $5 million in federal grant money set aside for redeveloping downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a new report. The application was submitted as a "community and cultural enhancement" grant, which is a program run by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corp. Developer Sharif El-Gamal discussed the grant proposal in recent closed-door meetings, according to The Daily Beast. The revelation that the developers have asked for this grant could reignite outrage about the mosque's proposed location.

I just got back from today’s ACT! rally at City Hall, in which they gave a press conference against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque. After the press conference they headed to see our Islamophile Mayor. They went to his office to hand him a petition signed by over 120,000 people who are in opposition to the Mosque. I first arrived at City Hall at about 10:30 AM and I meet up with a new friend Andrea (who is a reader of this site), but we did not see any crowd gathering or media. Finally at about 10:50 I spotted a...

The money woes keep growing for a developer of the Ground Zero mosque. Valley National Bank is suing Sharif El-Gamal and his real-estate company, Soho Properties, seeking $95,778 plus interest for an unrepaid loan. The firm took out a $100,000 line of credit, guaranteed by El-Gamal, from the bank in 2008, but defaulted in early 2009, according to court papers. A spokesman for El-Gamal declined to comment yesterday.

The ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee accused the imam behind the mosque project near Ground Zero of arm-twisting and "blackmailing" to push Park51 through. "To me, it's almost as if he's blackmailing and threatening the United States that somehow if the mosque is not approved or people speak out against his mosque, you have to worry about being attacked by Islamic terrorists," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on Fox Business Network on Friday. King said that the Islamic center was being "put their to make a statement, not to build bridges, but...

"Nobody ever defended anything successfully... there is only attack and attack and attack some more"ATTEN-SHUN!To any and all whining, panty-waist US citizens, it's time for a little refresher course on exactly why we Americans occasionally have to fight wars to keep this nation great... See if you can tear yourself away from your "reality" TV and Starbucks for a minute, pull your head out of your %$&# ... and for chissake LISTEN UP! Abu Ghraib was not an "atrocity." Got that? THIS is an atrocity! So was THIS!!! Radical Islamists are inherently peaceful people? My %$&# ! Millions of these...

A Massachusetts public school district allowed middle school students to participate in a Muslim prayer during a school sanctioned field trip to a Mosque. From the letter/permission slip sent out to parents: “During our visit, we will get a chance to hear from Islam from members of the Cultural Center, learn about the architecture of a Mosque and observe a midday prayer service.” A concerned parent did a bit of investigation into this Mosque and found out some interesting facts about this Mosque. It is called the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and is run by the Muslim American...

A reporter who helped write the first and positive New York Times story on the Ground Zero Mosque was trained by the group run by mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf, according to that group's website. Rauf's organization, the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), touted the journalist's participation in a training program by ASMA's "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" (MLT)."Media trainings showed immediate results," ASMA's 2009 year-end report said. Rauf's group then cited Sharaf Mowjood, "a journalism student at Columbia University and trained at the MLT [Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow] conference, wrote a compelling story about the Muslim community's plan to...

"We must never give a free-hand to those who look to subjugate us..." According to Pamela Gellar, there was plenty of media at yesterday's Rally of Remembrance event in Manhattan... but somehow a complete blackout of reportage, regardless that 40-50K were in attendance for Mr Wilders' wholly-impressive speech... no conspiracy there, lol . So, as these propagandists assist in hoisting an appalling Islamic victory flag upon the remains of our fallen 9/11 heroes -going against an American public 70% in opposition- let there be no doubt who's side the Quisling cowards of the MSM are on... not yours, America. And...

More than a few delusional Americans need immerse themselves in some cold reality -Bloomberg and Obama, for starters- by taking another look at video and pics from Sept 11th, 2001... freshen up your wishful-thinking memory regarding just WHAT THEY DID TO US... At 3pm today in Manhattan at Ground Zero -Park Place and W. Broadway- Pamela Geller and Holland's Geert Wilders will be speaking at the Rally of Remembrance... This is not just meant as a memorial event, but also a powerful protest message that badly needs to be sent to the fifth-columnist dopes (Bloomberg, Obama, Left) aiding and abetting...

WASHINGTON: On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, President Barack Obama on Friday strongly defended the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, saying that if one can build a Hindu temple then why not a mosque. "With respect to the mosque in New York, I've been pretty clear on my position here," Obama said when asked about the controversy surrounding the construction of a mosque near the Ground Zero in the New York city. He said the US believes in the inalienable right to allow its citizens to practice their religion freely. "This country...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump's offer to buy an investor's stake where a mosque is planned near ground zero is falling flat.

Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near Ground Zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center.

The Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11/01 by adherents of the supremacist and totalitarian program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah... The Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11/01 by adherents of the supremacist and totalitarian program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah... While the imam promoting the bad idea of the century -a mega-mosque at Ground Zero- has publicly declared that he seeks to “bring Shariah to America.”... great As this new ad (below) from the Center for Security Policy makes abundantly clear, Muslim followers of Shariah law have long built mosques -to flaunt their victories- on the most cherished and sacred...